Physical beauty is a detail, certainly, but in the case of Shaha Raphael, it was impossible not to notice how the beauty of the objects she created perfectly reflected her own. It was the same beauty of silent power, both gentle and intense, raw but not brutal, devoid of any artifice, sometimes unsettling, profoundly disturbing. Seeing the artist and her work side by side, the impression that they almost form one body was not just a question of coherence or aesthetic harmony. When Raphael spoke of her approach and artistic process, tracing back to her childhood where it all began, it was above all an undeniable sincerity that was revealed.L'Orient-Le Jour met with her in Paris, at the second edition of the "Matter and Shape" design fair, where she presented for the first time internationally a set of pieces under the title...